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> be 2009 > two guys decide to start a venture capital firm > problem: every top VC has decades of reputation > Sequoia backed Apple, Cisco, Google > how do you compete with that starting from zero? > one guy co-invented the web browser > the other took a company public with $2M
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Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport on why learning to code is like learning to type: "If people are trying to learn programming by being taught to code, they're being taught writing by being taught how to type. That doesn't make much sense." "The best way I have for teaching
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Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport on why programmers get it backwards: "People have this funny idea that because something is infinite, it's more complicated. They got it backwards. Infinity was introduced to simplify things." "The first thing you learn is arithmetic. You're
Leslie Lamport won a Turing award for his fundamental contributions to distributed systems. For instance, he invented the Paxos consensus algorithm that is a critical component of many distributed systems today. I interviewed him about his work and career. We discussed: • Why
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The US doesn't have an energy problem. It has a regulation problem. "The US already has abundant energy. We have the fourth largest natural gas reserves in the world and some of the best solar and wind potential on earth. The problem is that our grid, the electricity highway,
China added more solar capacity in 2025 than America has installed in its entire history. That's the most important energy chart you'll see today. And 2025 was also the first year when small-scale distributed solar pulled in more investments than utility-scale solar farms
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Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea on why his parents never cared about grades: "My brother was studying at night. My dad walked in and said, what are you doing? My brother said, I'm studying for a test." "My dad said: Why study it? You'll never remember it, so what's the good of
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One X article got me 6 discovery calls booked for Monday with companies that have upcoming launches & are looking for influencer amplification. There was very slight influencer boost on the article itself. Model works. Calls booked. Bullish.
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Larry Page: "No company in tech failed because of sales. Don't waste my time." "The best compliment or the worst compliment Larry ever gave me was: 'No company in tech failed because of sales. So you're running sales, I don't have two hours. If I had two hours I could make you
Technical founders: hiring salespeople is where you will most likely get wrecked.
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Getting influenced by fake people on the internet is the worst thing happening to young people. "You spend all this time rotting your brain with worthless social media. All of these people are essentially lying to you about their fake life. And too many people get tricked into
Launching a YouTube channel to share business stories, lessons I've learned, and important topics I’m actively exploring… https://t.co/qWi07Rr4aD
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Marc Andreessen on why hyperlinks are blue: "A lot of graphics computers at that time only had 256 total colors. They had to be something that actually stood out on the page. So it was basically gonna be blue, red, purple, or green." "I don't like those other colors." One of
Marc Andreessen explains future belongs to generalist in the AI era.🎯 Founders will need skills across 6–8 fields. Deep expertise still matters, but broad knowledge plus AI tools will be more valuable in most areas. Top CEOs already operate this way https://t.co/VftoYqW0kn
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.@brexHQ employees
we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are
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The $7.5 billion trade that made Soros and Druckenmiller $1 billion in a day. "I decide to take Duquesne and the Quantum Fund to 100% long the Deutsche Mark, short the pound. I go into Soros's office and explain why I'm going to 100%." "He had this unpleasant, puzzled look on
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Marc Andreessen explains that the "Onion Theory of Risk" is the best framework for how to raise money. "On day one, a startup has every conceivable kind of risk. Founding team risk. Product risk. Technical risk. Launch risk. Market acceptance risk. Revenue risk. Cost of sale
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Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel: “Competition is for losers. Build something no one's seen before.” “The next Mark Zuckerberg won’t be building a social networking site. The next Bill Gates won’t build an operating system.” “You don’t want to be the Harvard of North Dakota. The
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Palmer Luckey on why Anduril is better than Lockheed Martin. "Most new R&D in defense is done on a cost-plus basis. The contractor gets paid for their time, their materials, and then a fixed percentage of profit on top." "Of course, that incentivizes you to come up with
NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Inside @anduriltech’s race to build Fury, America’s first autonomous fighter jet. On October 31, last year, a gunmetal-colored, bullet-shaped object streaked across the skies of the California high desert under the careful watch of the U.S. Air Force. It
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All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo - Jobs (1982)
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